This week was a busy week for the Mississippi legislature. Thursday, March 12 was the deadline for representatives to discuss these general bills. Any bills not discussed in session by this deadline died on the calendar.
On Wednesday evening, the first case of the Corona Virus in Mississippi was reported in Forrest County, and by the end of the week, several more cases had been announced. Speaker of the House Philip Gunn, Speaker Pro Tempore Jason White and Public Health Chairman Sam Mims attended a press conference Thursday morning led by Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the State Health Officer of the Mississippi State Department of Health. At the present time, there are no plans to suspend business in the Legislature. However, all tours at the Capitol have been suspended until further notice.
If you are like me, you are amazed at the panic that is taking place over this virus. Our nation has experienced other illnesses and we have always survived without shutting down our nation. I remember Ebola, Swine Flu, and Bird Flu, all of were concerning and created a degree of caution but none created the panic we see today.
The politics is concerning with the recent panic over the Corona Virus. I caution us all to not give up freedoms in exchange for a false sense of security. Do not for one-second believe that the government can keep you safe or take care of you. We don’t need the Governor or the President to issue an order to close schools or businesses. You can keep your kids home from school if you feel it is the safest decision, you can stay home from work or church if you feel it is best. We do not need a politician to make those decisions for us. We must not give up our freedom.
Mississippi House of Representatives Turns Left
The 2020 Mississippi legislative session has seen the Mississippi House of Representatives take a hard turn to the left. We have raised taxes and increase regulation at a rate that should make any democrat proud.
Here are just a few of the worst bills passed so far;
HB265 – raises current salaries for statewide elected officers. There is no shortage of people who seek these jobs so why should the people of Mississippi increase their salary?
H379 – The Facebook Marketplace Tax. This bill authorizes the state to tax, regulate and audit online “marketplace facilitators” (companies that facilitate the online buying and selling of personal property). It also includes a provision that allows this tax to be passed on to those who purchase items through the facilitator. This bill is an attempt by the state government to become involved in the growing online market of personal property.
HB565 – This bill authorizes the issuance of bonds to fund the repair and renovation of the North Oak Regional Medical Center in Senatobia. The state should not borrow money to bailout a private company. This bill was nothing more than a powerful chairman in the Mississippi legislature using his position to bring home money to his district for personal gain. This is dysfunctional government at it’s worst.
HB837 – Your Mississippi House of Representative passed this bill that will require the people of Mississippi to pay for same-sex female couples to have children. HB837 mandates that insurance providers in the state cover artificial insemination for couples wanting to have children. This procedure is expensive and will raise the cost of healthcare for everyone. Also, the state cannot discriminate because of sexual orientation which means state employees who are “married” to same sex partners can have the people of Mississippi pay to help them get pregnant.
My Votes
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Property exempt from seizure under execution or attachment; include Roth individual retirement accounts. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Mississippi Educational Talent Recruitment Act; create. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Hunting license; require to be suspended if determined that death or injury occurred because of negligence. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Community college board of trustees; provide for the selection of for Hinds Community College District. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Court ordered home study; revise fee. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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School bus drivers; increase maximum speed limit on interstate highways. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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“Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act”; establish. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Ad valorem taxation; bring forward certain sections of law relating to determination of true value of property and assessments. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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The “Life Equality Act”; create to prohibit abortion based on certain factors. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Medicaid; authorize division to extend certain contracts for two years without complying with state procurement regulations. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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“Mississippi Learn to Earn Act”; enact to authorize the earning of graduation credit through apprenticeships and other alternative courses. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Proposed solid waste facility that will be located within one mile of an existing permitted solid waste facility; authorize reverse referendum on. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Commissioner of Corrections, and community corrections; bring forward various sections relating to. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Corrections omnibus bill; enact. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Mississippi Workforce Incentive Act of 2020; create. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Seizure and forfeiture; exempt certain property from. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Compassionate Parole Eligibility Act of 2020; create. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Corrections; authorize George and Greene Counties to privatize regional correctional facility. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Judicial districts; revise certain chancery and circuit. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Inmate Welfare Fund; require DOC to expend unused portions of the fund on reentry purposes. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Daylight saving time; observe year-round if federal law is amended to allow it. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Sexting by minors; provide as a delinquent act. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Elected state officers; salaries shall not be more than average of salaries of equivalent officials in adjacent states. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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State veterans nursing homes; authorize to operate group purchasing programs jointly with other public entities. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Memorial Highway; designate U.S. Highway 45 in Alcorn County and Prentiss County as “Speaker William J. ‘Billy’ McCoy Memorial Highway.” |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Department of Revenue; authorize to revise individual income tax forms to allow taxpayer to designate two bank accounts for direct deposit. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Wireless Communication Commission; remove ITS control over. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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“Trauma-Informed Discipline Practices Act; enact to establish procedures to assess and mediate effects of traumatic events in schools. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Health insurance policies; require certain to provide infertility coverage and establish pilot program in State Health Plan. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Air Operating Permit Program fees; revise laws relating to. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Local System Bridge Replacement & Rehabilitation Fund; revise allocation formula. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Durable legal guardianship; revise provisions regarding. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Termination of parental rights; clarify jurisdiction of county and youth courts. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Child custody orders; change reference to certain terms. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Out-of-State Adoptions; clarify certain provisions regarding. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Law enforcement; allow off-duty use of official vehicles while performing security services in off-duty hours. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Guardianships and Conservatorships; revise provision for proceedings. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Self-storage facilities; regulate rental agreements and owners’ liens. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District of Innovation. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement in K-12 public schools. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Real Estate Brokers License; revise the requirements to be granted such a license. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Nonadjudication of criminal case; includes crimes listed as crimes of violence under Section 97-3-2 for felonies. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Service of summons in youth courts; shall be made pursuant to the Uniform Rules of the Youth Court Practice. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Seizure and forfeiture; exempt certain property from. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Regulatory Reduction Pilot Program; create. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Foreign judgment; authorize courts to consider due process and fraud issues. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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IHL Board; revise authority to choose institution executive heads. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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The Sexual Assault Response For College Students Act; create. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Appropriation; additional for various state agencies for Fiscal Year 2020. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Sexting by minors; provide as a delinquent act. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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“Mississippi Seafood Marketing Law of 2020”; enact to require consumer notice and labeling of country of origin on all foreign and imported seafood. |
House Passed As Amended |
Other |
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Haul seine net; prohibit use of for taking of certain fish within one-half mile of the shoreline of Cat Island. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Department of Marine Resources Enforcement Officers’ Reserve Unit; revise provisions regulating. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Transportation funding; authorize public-private partnerships to include naming rights. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Expungement; revise provisions for eligibility. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Tate County School Board; require to consolidate system of high schools by closing Coldwater High School. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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School mobile panic button program; require Department of Education to develop and implement in K-12 public schools. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Home inspector license; require applicants to undergo certain background checks. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Coastal Wetlands Protection Act; revise definitions to include “ordinary high water mark”. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Littering violations; add assessment for LSBP funds. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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IHL Board of Trustees; require appointments to be made by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Nonadmitted policy fee; delete repealer on and revise distribution of. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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MS Real Estate Commission; authorize an appeal to act as a supersedeas and to stay any rule or decision until resolved. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Revised Mississippi Law on Notarial Acts; create and repeal existing statutes on notaries public. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Firearms; prohibit state agencies from creating restrictions for possession of. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Tribal identification cards; recognize as legal means of personal identification. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Alternative nicotine products; regulate. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Tribal regalia; prohibit governmental entity from restricting wear. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Alcoholic beverages; revise certain provisions regarding tasting or sampling events conducted by a holder of a package retailer’s permit. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Tobacco products; prohibit wholesalers from directly selling the products to retailers. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Absentee ballots; revise procedures and timeline for mailing to voter and receiving from voter. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Abandoned mobile homes; establish a procedure to dispose of. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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IHL; authorize to enter into services agreements for certain repairs, maintenance and capitol improvements of a university utility system. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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MS Electronic Court System; require all courts to utilize. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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HELP Grant Program; align curriculum with changes for college preparatory as required by IHL. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Absentee voting; require votes to be cast electronically in registrar’s office or by mail. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Persons who violate final orders, resolutions or ordinances of local government; require to pay attorney fees to enforce orders, resolutions/ordinances. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Motor vehicles; delete five-day requirement regarding towing and storage of. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Motor vehicles; add exception for title and/or registration upon selling for wrecker and auto repair service businesses. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Highway Patrol; impose assessment for certain violations to defray expenses of. |
House Failed |
Nay |
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Reverse auction; revise method of receiving bids through for agencies and governing authorities. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Municipal menaced property; make certain clarifying revisions regarding. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Riparian owner rights; revise for purposes of state-owned lands on Deer Island. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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State Port Authority; extend repealer on authority to use design-build method for certain projects. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Forest acreage tax; extend repealer on statute requiring counties to levy. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Ad valorem taxes; extend reverter on authority for late payment without penalty or interest when exemption was inadvertently extended. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine; authorize sales and purchase of certain products containing without a prescription. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Department of Marine Resources Chief Financial Officer; revise the qualifications for. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Taxation; amend certain sections of law to make interest rates for various unpaid taxes consistent with rates provided in other sections of law. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Sales tax; revise provisions regarding denial/revocation of permit due to unpaid taxes. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Fuel and lubricating oil taxes; remove bond limit and class distinctions for certain distributors, require electronic filing of returns. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Motor vehicle title; change vehicle age from 10 to 20 years for odometer disclosure exemption. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Oil and gas severance; revise date by taxes are due. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Mississippi Board of Nursing;authorize to collect certain costs and establish procedure for collection. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Constitution; amend to provide certain rights to victims throughout the criminal and juvenile justice systems. |
House Adopted |
Yea |
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Lieutenant Colonel Reuben Soliz; commend for display of courage under fire. |
House Adopted |
Yea |
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Dr. Clyde Muse; commend laudable career and distinguished service of upon the occasion of his retirement. |
House Adopted |
Yea |
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Constitution; legislative alternative to Initiative No. 65 regarding medical marijuana. |
House Adopted |
Nay |
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Madison County Sheriff Deputy Brad Sullivan; commend heroism of. |
House Adopted |
Yea |
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Constitution; remove the electoral vote requirement for the Governor. |
House Adopted |
Nay |
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Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month; recognize April 2002 as. |
House Adopted |
Yea |
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Mississippi Liquor Distribution Corporation Law; create. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Alcoholic beverages; revise policy of the state regarding prohibition of possession of. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Alcoholic beverages; allow individuals to purchase wine from a winery and have the wine shipped to a package retailer in this state. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Mississippi Development Authority; bring forward various sections relating to. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Alcoholic beverages; remove DOR from being wholesale distributor, authorize issuance of wine distributor permits. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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State land; revise fee for filing patent for conveyance of. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of qualified resort area, revise provisions regarding certain permits and sales. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Securities registration filings; revise certain provisions regarding fees. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Ad valorem tax; revise penalty for failure of public service corporations to render schedules of property to Department of Revenue for assessment purposes. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Ad valorem tax; revise certain provisions relating to assessment of public service corporations. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; revise provisions regarding issuance of various veterans tags. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Toll roads; revise maximum length of time for public private partnership agreement. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Occupational Licensing Review Commission; authorize to review certain existing occupational regulations to determine compliance with state policy. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Chancery court clerk fees; revise those charged for recording oil and gas assignments. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Board on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Training; revise membership of. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Public Procurement Review Board; exempt certain contracts entered into by Attorney General’s office from oversight of. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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School athletic trainers; provide annual salary supplement for those acquiring national certification. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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National board certification annual salary supplement; remove cap on number of nurses and speech-language pathologists eligible for. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Memorial highway; designate segment of U.S. Highway 51 in Lincoln County for fallen police officers Zach Moak and James White. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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MS Blues Commission; direct to erect certain Blues Trail marker and add location to trail. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Air bow; authorize use during certain open seasons for individuals exempt from hunting license requirement by reason of disability. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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MS 811 Law; provide for notifications through the Positive Response Information System (PRIS). |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Institutions of higher learning; require to ensure commercially reasonable procurement practices when purchasing aircraft equipment and services. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Armed Services Absentee Voting Law; expand definition of “absent voter” to include those working in federal waters of United States. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Economic Development Highway Act; revise definition of high economic benefit project. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Individual bond; require for public officers and employees handling or having the custody of public funds. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Superload vehicles; authorize law enforcement to escort and to charge reasonable fee for escort. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Motor Carrier regulation; update and streamline. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Community or junior college; require to include source of funds used to advertise certain workforce development courses and training. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Vehicle weight limits; allow certain excess of limits for vehicles operated by engine fueled with compressed or LNG. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Dentists; provide immunity for providing charitable and emergency services. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Board on law enforcement officer standards and training; authorize to consider certain military training when determining qualification of applicant. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Highway patrolmen; allow active duty to teach driver education and training programs. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Hospice; allow medical directors to prescribe controlled substances for pain for terminally ill patients without in-person visit. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Mississippi Veterans Home Perpetual Care Fund; create. |
House Passed As Amended |
Other |
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Poll managers; remove limitation on additional that election commissioners may appoint. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Cremation; prohibit until approved by county medical examiner. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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“Future of Mississippi Agriculture Act of 2020”; enact. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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MS Law Enforcement Officers’ Training Academy; name firing range as the “Lieutenant Colonel Pat Cronin Firing Range.” |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Hunter safety course; authorize school districts to offer as part of their curriculum. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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MS Accountability and Transparency Act; revise to include certain counties and municipalities. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize issuance to Cold War veterans. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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State contract price; authorize rural water associations to purchase commodities under. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Sixteenth section land; authorize leasing of certain land by cities/counties for less than minimum percentage of market value under certain circumstances. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Career and technical education programs; require SBE and MCCB to collaborate for administration of. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Memorial highway; designate segment of U.S. Highway 50 in Lowndes County as “Senator William ‘Bill’ Canon Memorial Highway.” |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Community colleges; authorize boards of trustees to approve certain policies permitting out-of-state tuition waivers. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Highway sign; authorize erection of on MS Hwy 25 near Pisgah exit to honor Olympic Gold Medalist Tori Bowie. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Mississippi Veterans Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund; create. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Chronic wasting disease; require testing of white-tailed deer harvested in enclosures, and designate Class I and II violations. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Law enforcement officers; allow off-duty use of official vehicles while performing certain volunteer services in off-duty hours. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Memorial highways; designate. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Counties; may also maintain electronic format of law books in courtrooms and in county public law libraries. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Memorial highway; designate certain segment of MS Highway 15 in Newton and Neshoba counties as “Judge Marcus D. Gordon Memorial Highway”. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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DUI suspension; clarify when the 120 day suspensions begins. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Ad valorem tax; revise certain provisions regarding when an application for change of property assessment may be made. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Manufactured and mobile homes; require certain notice to tax collector when relocated from another county. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Beer and light wine; allow certain cities and towns with population of 1,000 or more to hold elections to permit the sale of. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Gifted education; require school districts to provide for students in Grades 7 and 8. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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State and School Health Insurance Management Board; authorize State Agency executive heads to designate to serve in his or her capacity. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Petroleum Products Inspection Law; extend repealers on definitions and penalties under. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Mississippi Employer-Assisted Housing Teacher Program; remove requirement that the Department of Education administer with the FNMA. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Freestanding emergency room; allow to be established near location of a recently closed hospital. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Community colleges; authorize boards of trustees to waive out-of-state tuition to certain students upon agreement to remain in the state. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Outdoor advertisement signs; revise height requirements for. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Traffic accidents; require to move vehicle to certain locations in certain situations on a highway. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Driver’s license; require Department of Public Safety to allow official identifying document of MDOC to suffice for. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Alcohol; revise certain provisions regarding authority of Department of Revenue to dispose of seized alcohol. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Taxation; authorize Commissioner of Revenue to reduce a tax assessment based on additional information after order of Board of Tax Appeals. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Department of Revenue; allow department appraisers to receive certain pay increases upon completing certain training. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Sales tax; divert certain sales tax revenue to special fund for state parks improvement. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Community or junior colleges; authorize to administer construction contracts of $1,000,000.00 or less, and exempt certain oversight. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Light spirit products; define as no more than 4% alcoholic content by weight, and regulate same as beer and light wine. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Amusement rides; provide inspection and incident reporting requirements for. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Unused ballots; provide for the retention and destruction of. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Emerging Crops Fund; increase maximum loan amount and total bonding authority under. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Agencies, departments and institutions; require to report workforce monies received and how those monies were spent to the SWIB each year. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Trust fund; authorize hospitals to maintain fund consisting of commingled funds of other hospitals for necessary expenses. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Certificate of educational recognition for tax assessors; authorize Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service to issue. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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State Domestic Violence Fund; remove match requirement. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Uniform Control Substance Act; revise schedule to add certain substances. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Water well contractor’s license; remove requirement that applicant must present three affidavits to the DEQ examining committee. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Secure detention and state training school; revise conditions under which a child may be ordered to by court. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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“Mississippi Hemp Cultivation Act”; enact to provide for regulation of hemp. |
House Passed As Amended |
Yea |
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Critical infrastructure; define crimes of impeding and trespassing against. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Dept. of Agriculture; clarify use of security personnel to provide security services in state buildings under contract with DFA. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Budget process; bring forward various sections relating to. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Mississippi S.A.F.E. Mortgage Act; remove repealer, clarify record keeping requirements and estimate of costs provided to borrower. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Advocate Confidentiality Law; establish procedures for disclosure. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Public Service Commission; remove from the provisions of the Mississippi Budget Transparency and Simplification Act. |
House Passed As Amended |
Nay |
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Part-time law enforcement officers; revise salary threshold determination for deputy sheriffs and police officers. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Sixteenth section lands; revise provisions relating to reports and copies of leases to Secretary of State. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Occupational licenses; revise provisions regarding licensing for certain military applicants. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Public Service Commission; extend repealers and make certain revisions to. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Elected state officers; salaries shall not be more than average of salaries of equivalent officials in adjacent states. |
House Passed |
Nay |
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Municipal judges; authorize to hold court outside municipal boundaries that is more than within a one-mile radius of municipality to accept pleas. |
House Passed |
Yea |
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Golf carts and low-speed vehicles; allow municipalities to authorize operation on municipal streets. |
House Passed |
Yea |
